In The
Former Edition I Suggested Juzgana, A Name Which Till Our Author's Time
Was Applied To A Part Of The Adjoining Territory, Though Not To That
Traversed In Quitting Balkh For The East.
Sir H. Rawlinson is inclined to
refer the name to Dehgan, or "villager," a term applied in Bactria, and
in Kabul, to Tajik peasantry[1].
I may also refer to certain passages in
Baber's "Memoirs," in which he speaks of a place, and apparently a
district, called Dehanah, which seems from the context to have lain in
the vicinity of the Ghori, or Aksarai River. There is still a village in
the Ghori territory, called Dehanah. Though this is worth mentioning,
where the true solution is so uncertain, I acknowledge the difficulty of
applying it. I may add also that Baber calls the River of Ghori or
Aksarai, the Dogh-abah. (Sprenger, P. und R. Routen, p. 39 and Map;
Anderson in J. A. S. B. XXII. 161; Ilch. II. 93; Baber, pp. 132,
134, 168, 200, also 146.)
NOTE 3. - Though Burnes speaks of the part of the road that we suppose
necessarily to have been here followed from Balkh towards Taican, as
barren and dreary, he adds that the ruins of aqueducts and houses proved
that the land had at one time been peopled, though now destitute of water,
and consequently of inhabitants. The country would seem to have reverted
at the time of Burnes' journey, from like causes, nearly to the state in
which Marco found it after the Mongol devastations.
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